It should be a relief when America’s Democrats and Republicans find common ground(找到共同点). But one emerging area of bipartisanship(两党合作) is disturbing(令人不安的). Members of both parties increasingly oppose scientific research on animals. If they succeed in stopping it, they will prevent America from helping advance the welfare of the most valuable animal of all: humans.(如果他们成功阻止，美国将无法帮助增进人类福祉。)
当美国的民主党人和共和党人找到共同点时，本应令人欣慰。但一个新兴的两党共识领域却令人不安。两党成员日益反对在动物身上进行科学研究。如果他们成功阻止了这项研究，他们将使美国无法帮助增进所有动物中最有价值的动物——人类的福祉。
Animal welfare may seem a cause for sandal-wearing(穿凉鞋的) lefties(左派人士). But it has long had advocates on the right and far right. MAGA(让美国再次伟大运动) has embraced the crusade(运动；十字军东征). Robert F. Kennedy junior, the health secretary, has vowed(发誓，郑重承诺) to end all animal experimentation, and under him(在他领导下) the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is closing its primate(灵长类动物) laboratory. The navy has banned(禁止) funding for scientific research on cats and dogs.
动物福利或许看似是穿凉鞋的左派人士的事业。但长期以来，右翼和极右翼也有其拥护者。MAGA（让美国再次伟大）运动已投身这场运动。卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪誓言要终止所有动物实验，在他领导下，美国疾病控制与预防中心正在关闭其灵长类动物实验室。海军已禁止资助针对猫和狗的科学研究。
The federal government is joined in the cause by plenty of Democrats—whose party otherwise(在其他方面；否则) sees itself as differing from Republicans by being committed to enlightened(开明的，有见识的) science. In Oregon Democratic politicians stand with Donald Trump’s appointees in trying to curtail(削减，限制) research and shrink(缩小，收缩) the monkey colony(群体；殖民地) at America’s largest federally funded primate-research centre.
联邦政府在这一事业中得到了许多民主党人的支持——而他们的政党在其他方面自认为与共和党不同，因为民主党致力于开明的科学。在俄勒冈州，民主党政治家与唐纳德·特朗普的任命者站在一起，试图削减研究并缩减美国最大的联邦资助灵长类研究中心的猴子种群。